After HP announced it would discontinue production of its TouchPad tablet last week, it looked like early HP tablet adopters spent $500 on a dud. If you’re an enterprising software hacker, however, there could be an opportunity to make your money back — and then some. A hardware-modification web site is offering a $1,500 cash […]
Continue ReadingThe Hacker’s Choice announced a security problem with Vodafone’s Mobile Phone Network. An attacker can listen to UK Vodafone mobile phone calls. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in 3G/UMTS/WCDMA – the latest and most secure mobile phone standard in use today. The technical details are available at http://wiki.thc.org/vodafone. The problem lies within Vodafone’s Sure […]
Continue ReadingA French security company known for its Mac OS X antivirus software today released the first malware-scanning app for the iPhone and iPad and iPod Touch. Intego’s VirusBarrier for iOS has been approved by Apple, and debuted on the App Store Tuesday for $2.99. Because iOS prevents the program from accessing the file system or […]
Continue ReadingResearchers have discovered a new variant of the insidious Zeus trojan that is designed to run on Google Android smartphones, security researchers have warned. The malicious program is a new version of Zitmo, a mobile trojan application first discovered last year that stands for “Zeus in the mobile,” Derek Manky, a senior security strategist at […]
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